purchased with the assistance of the Museums and Galleries Commission/Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1963

Accession number

VA.1963.0098

Private loan

No

Description

This work is both an abstract painting and a still life. It can be seen as a glass on a table.
Ben Nicholson is concerned with the balance between two sets of shapes. The lines of a glass on the right balance an equal area of coloured shapes on the left.